More than you ever wanted to know about Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?.
These are commonly use with services like Twitter that only allow 140 characters in a post, sometimes long URLs don't fit. Joshua Schacter writes on url shorteners. Cory Doctorow sums it up as "URL shorteners like TinyURL are a bad idea, because they make the web more fragile, dependent on the shortener services as central points of failure. They also assist spammers, undermine googlejuice, and expose users to security vulnerabilities."
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